Forward Deployed Architect

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You'll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

• Architect, design, and deliver enterprise-scale AI and agentic solutions by working directly with clients to translate complex business challenges into scalable technical architectures and production-ready implementations.
• Demonstrate deep hands‑on experience with leading Large Language Models (LLMs), including OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Meta Llama, Mistral, and IBM Granite, with the ability to evaluate, fine‑tune, orchestrate, and optimize models for client use cases.
• Lead the design and implementation of modern AI architectures, including Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, multi-agent systems, knowledge graphs, vector databases, model routing, and LLMOps/MLOps frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, data scientists, engineers, and executive leadership to rapidly prototype, deploy, and scale AI solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes across operations, customer experience, risk, and compliance functions.
• Provide technical leadership and thought leadership on emerging AI technologies, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), APIs, data platforms, and integration patterns, while establishing best practices for security, governance, responsible AI, and enterprise adoption.

This job can be performed from anywhere in the U.S.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• +5 years of experience leading AI solutions
• Experience deploying AI solutions in highly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, or Public Sector.
• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, CrewAI, MCP, vector databases, and cloud‑native AI services.
• Prior customer‑facing consulting, solution architecture, or forward‑deployed engineering experience.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Cloud Security Expertise: Deep expertise in cloud security and compliance, with experience in designing and implementing secure cloud architectures that meet regulatory requirements.
• Multi-Cloud Experience: Experience working with multiple cloud providers, including private and public clouds, and providing orchestration, management, and application portability between them.
• Technical Leadership: Experience leading highly technical teams and collaborating with stakeholders to define and execute technical adoption and migration strategies.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can‑do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
• Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI‑driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry‑recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have

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